Mark Carney has been accused of plagiarism in his PhD dissertation for the University of Oxford.
The Canadian Prime Minister has refuted claims that he duplicated 10 lines of text for his university thesis in 1995.
The accusations come amid the start of his election campaign ahead of a national vote on April 28, while the liberal leader called the snap election as Canada tries to face down Donald Trump’s trade war.
Now, the former Bank of England governor has been hit with claims that he failed to correctly attribute quotes, paragraphs and slightly paraphrased segments in his doctorate in economics for Nuffield College.
The University of British Columbia’s Geoffrey Sigalet said: “He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism.”
Carney’s campaign team was quick to slap down the claims, insisting that the allegations were simply an “irresponsible mischaracterisation” of the thesis.
The PM allegedly included sentences from economist Michael E Porter but failed to cite the 1990 work from which it was pulled consistently.
However, the book The Competitive Advantage of Nations was cited several times throughout his dissertation but is believed to have missed several points which he lifted from the original text.
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Mirroring Porter’s 1990 work, both texts read: “First, government intervention can impede international competition and artificially support domestic profits.”
At another point in his 1995 essay, Carney wrote: “There are three reasons why domestic profitability is not a good indicator of true international competitive advantage.”
Critics have claimed that the now-PM sourced this quote from Porter’s book, which reads: “Domestic profitability is not a good indication of true international competitive advantage for three important reasons.”
However, in an ardent defence of her former student, Carney’s former Oxford supervisor Margaret Meyer insisted that there was “no evidence of plagiarism” in the areas highlighted by The National Post.
She told the Canadian paper: “It is typical that overlapping language appears” when sources were “frequently referenced in an academic text".
Meyer explained: “For example, over the course of this more than 300-page thesis, the Michael Porter book… is cited dozens of times. Within his thesis, Mark acknowledged, cited, scrutinised and expanded on this piece.”
Carney has also been accused of plagiarising Jeremy Stein’s 1989 work 'Efficient Capital Markets, Inefficient Firms: A Model of Myopic Corporate Behaviour', in which he has appeared to make few changes to the original wording of the article’s text.
Since his thesis, Carney has served as governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada.
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The Canadian Prime Minister has refuted claims that he duplicated 10 lines of text for his university thesis in 1995.
The accusations come amid the start of his election campaign ahead of a national vote on April 28, while the liberal leader called the snap election as Canada tries to face down Donald Trump’s trade war.
Now, the former Bank of England governor has been hit with claims that he failed to correctly attribute quotes, paragraphs and slightly paraphrased segments in his doctorate in economics for Nuffield College.
The University of British Columbia’s Geoffrey Sigalet said: “He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism.”
Carney’s campaign team was quick to slap down the claims, insisting that the allegations were simply an “irresponsible mischaracterisation” of the thesis.
The PM allegedly included sentences from economist Michael E Porter but failed to cite the 1990 work from which it was pulled consistently.
However, the book The Competitive Advantage of Nations was cited several times throughout his dissertation but is believed to have missed several points which he lifted from the original text.
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Mirroring Porter’s 1990 work, both texts read: “First, government intervention can impede international competition and artificially support domestic profits.”
At another point in his 1995 essay, Carney wrote: “There are three reasons why domestic profitability is not a good indicator of true international competitive advantage.”
Critics have claimed that the now-PM sourced this quote from Porter’s book, which reads: “Domestic profitability is not a good indication of true international competitive advantage for three important reasons.”
However, in an ardent defence of her former student, Carney’s former Oxford supervisor Margaret Meyer insisted that there was “no evidence of plagiarism” in the areas highlighted by The National Post.
She told the Canadian paper: “It is typical that overlapping language appears” when sources were “frequently referenced in an academic text".
Meyer explained: “For example, over the course of this more than 300-page thesis, the Michael Porter book… is cited dozens of times. Within his thesis, Mark acknowledged, cited, scrutinised and expanded on this piece.”
Carney has also been accused of plagiarising Jeremy Stein’s 1989 work 'Efficient Capital Markets, Inefficient Firms: A Model of Myopic Corporate Behaviour', in which he has appeared to make few changes to the original wording of the article’s text.
Since his thesis, Carney has served as governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada.
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